Africans Weren’t Cool In USA Until 2010’s

[Premeditated]

Oh and type this is your native language. What happened in Austin? Y'all up north. Too easy

e fa kaya
e ne nana

e laku nuanh kphuh

 

[Premeditated]

The people who invented it as part of our culture.

In a word, cool is black. Or, to be more accurate, there was a historical period in the evolution of the modern concept of cool when it seemed to be a property, largely but not exclusively, of African Americans.

Moore cites an early instance of cool in its slang form in Zora Neale Hurston’s 1935 collection Mules and Men, in which a man talks about his “box” or guitar: “Ah don’t go nowhere unless I take my box wid me. . . . And what make it so cool, Ah don’t go nowhere unless I play it.”

How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal?

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ok, so just fbas

got it

 

[JackRoss]

e fa kaya
e ne nana

e laku nuanh kphuh

Yeah that's what I thought. You cowards are vastly outnumbered and we can do this anytime. Remember Australia

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Yeah that's what I thought. You cowards are vastly outnumbered and we can do this anytime. Remember Australia

You're not a killer breh. Lighten up.

 

[Premeditated]

Yeah that's what I thought. You cowards are vastly outnumbered and we can do this anytime. Remember Australia

what happened in Australia?
you identify with aboriginals?

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Blatantly false.

This is what social media has done to people. They actively spread misinformation so they can get views and clicks.

In the 1960s, black people started changing their names. Kwame Turè was not born or raised in africa. Dashikis, kente cloth, Africa jewelry, etc. Started becoming more common as African countries gained their independence. When south africa finally broke out of apartheid in the 80s, that fueled the renewed interest in African esthetics and history that we saw again in the 90s.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Maybe for young people. They’re still tube sock with church shoes wearing, scammers to me.

 

[SpikeLee Cumbersmith]

You would have to be really young to make this statement. I will say that the relationship has deteriorated.

 

[mson]

who cares about being "cool"
pandering Africans like Godfrey make me sick

seriously, what has happened to Nigerians? growing up, they use to be some of the most proud, arrogant and patriotic Africans that i came across, now, they are just pandering or blasting their own country online for the world to use.

How does he pander?

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Blatantly false.

This is what social media has done to people. They actively spread misinformation so they can get views and clicks.

In the 1960s, black people started changing their names. Kwame Turè was not born or raised in africa. Dashikis, kente cloth, Africa jewelry, etc. Started becoming more common as African countries gained their independence. When south africa finally broke out of apartheid in the 80s, that fueled the renewed interest in African esthetics and history that we saw again in the 90s.

a bunch of babble

they obviously meant africans projecting their own "cool" on their own

and yes that didnt get popping till afro beats jumped off in the mid 2010s